The Sun. — London, England, 1826-08-30 00:00:00

ON THE LAW OF MARRIAGE. There 'is no Subject' connected with the English law in 'which the body of the people are so ' deeply in terested as that 'which regulates the solemnization of Matriniony,'or one in 'Which plainness and clearness of regulation are so essentially necessary. Whether this plainness and clearness can be said to be the qualities of the laW of these Kingdrnits retarding Marriages, seems hardly to be 'doubtful, when we consider that a different rule prevails in England, Ireland, and Scot land; or even the multitude of doubts on the validity of Marriages our Ecclesiastical Courts are called upon to deci!le'S although, it may be said, that where a marriage ' takes place 'in England between Pro testants, members of the Church of England, there, in deed, it , very seldom happens that a doubt arises; yet, it should, nevertheless, seem to be a grievance of no common extent, that the law regarding .marriages so lemnized abriiad, or in Ireland and Scotland, should not be better ascertained. By . a singular fatality too, it so happens, that so far as marriages solemnized abroad are concerned, there does exist a late Legislative provi sion of so clear and explicit a nature, that if it fails to show what 'shall not be a valid marriage, it nevertheless clearly points out what shall constitute a lawful wedding, and thus, by presenting us with a proper form, cures almost all the evils that might otherwise arise from the uncertainty that involves all cases of this nature. The Act to which we allude is the 4th Geo. 4, c. 91, and which. enacts, that marriages solemnized by a Minister of the Church of England, in the chapel or house of a British Minister abroad, or in the chapel of a British • Factory abroad, or in the house of any British subject residing at such factory, shall be valid. But the, seeistid clause expressly declares, that the Act shall 'not Confirm or impair the validity of any mai riagis solemnized abroad, except such 'as are solem nized in the places abuse-mentioned'. Hence it should seem that all marriages,. solemnized agreeably to the forms and law' of the 'country in which they took lace,, would lie held in this country to he valid. It is on o this principle thee marriages solemnized in Ire land or Scotland (Gretna Green for instance) are held to be good, although in deciding this point it not - unfrequently becomes a question, what is the law of such country? and when that is ascer tented, whether it has been duly observed by the fatties who there Contracted matrimony together. The common' law of England regards a marriage as a temporal contract, and therefore does not interfere to enforce or annul it, except upon the same principles as it would enforce .or annul a common contract of sale and purchase. But, the Ecclesiastical law looks upon matrimony as a religious ceremony, and accord ingly there are many canons regulating the perso be t? tween whom matrimony may be contracted, a . the time and place when and where , the marriages all be solemnized, and the manner thereof. It is these canons that declare that it shall take place between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon, and in the parish church. They also prohibit incestuous marriages, or marriages between persons too nearly related. A great variety of these cartons have, in process of time, been by statute engrafted on the English law, and dots they be come equally entitled to notice in the courts of law, as in the courts' spiritual of the country. But even in this there still remains a great distinction between defects in a marriage cognizable before the courts spiritual and the co urostemporal. ' In the fast the) would he held ag rendering the Marriage void ; in the uremia, voidable only, that is to say, would annul the marriage, when the 'objection is taken s a distinction which, albeit, it may not be very material to the parties illegally married; yet to their issue, is of the very greatest importance, because, after the death-of eitherparent, the tempo ral courts will not permit the spiritual courts to pro nounce that marriage void, which was voidable only by the English law, and thus the issue of such void able Marriage cannot be bastardised, or the succession to property defeated by post mortem proceedinga in the courts chriatian. With reference to the requisites to form a legal m a ssisige in England, (emphatically speaking) we can not very, well choose this medium to point out the niceties of the Aet 4 Geo. IV., cap. 76. It will suf. , fice to say, that the marriage must be solemnized in a church wherein banns may be lawfully published, an d A n nis may he lawftilly published in the parish church, or in any church or chapel - by licence from the BiShop, obtained with the assent of patron and incithibent of time living; that banns of marriage must be first duly published, and they mat be followed by solemnization of the marriage within threeM9ll4,llS from the last day of publication, or, in default of banns, a licestee must be duly obtained from the proper ec clesiaSti,sel, authority. This Act also contains some regulations as to the age of the parties contracting m ummy, and As to the consent of the .parents or guar dians of such of them as shill be under 21 years of age.' By time common law the age of consent would be.l4 in a boy, and P 2 M a girl S'but this Act extends the parental authority ulna they arrive at 21. Any wilful departure from these provisioned on the part of the persons contracting marriages, will render the mar riage null and void ; but if such persons are made the victims of another's fraud, as if the officiating clergy man was not duly licensed, their the marriage will still be valid, but the clergyman would be subject to trans portation for 14 years. These are whit mitybe called the leading features of time Act ; but it contains other minor detailS, Which ' as we before hinted, it is hardly worth while to give liere. The Act was passed solely witli a view, to Prevent, as far as possible, all clandes tine marriages, and to protect minors of both sexes from the conskpietices of any ill-advised connection, into which they might, b e , i n time bey-day of youth, entrapped by the designi ng ni , profligate practiaci a in the art of seduction, or tin deep-hdd villainies of the hackneyed and the heartless. . - On the subject of incest tints marriages, or marriages between parties too nearly relassa i a few words may here be said. These incestiume marriages are void` by the Canon Law ; but our law only niekes them void able,' not ipso Ado void, until sentence, of nullity be obtained., ' C ano nical disability , arising by the rela. aionShip of the parties, are either grounded upon the ea , -press words of the Di vine or are consequences P 3 rf i rly deducible from t hence. It therefore bein g '. . i had 'utne persOns who labour tinder them to a s. tract matrimony together, they are pro-. tempt to eno , . „ perly the object of the,EcClessaastical Magistrates'cost- Milo in order to -separate th;i' , ,offentlers, mid inflict pe nance for the offence. pro:611 1 0e .anintartoll., Bt!t1 these catmints in thriller times, WireJnade tne vehicle of much extortion, on the. part of the church' by , multiplying the number of persons whet could not con tract matrimony for the sake of the I"neY to be p r , D s. - g duced by, he pnrchsse of dispensation-,rite statute 3z Henry Vlll. c. JB, declared the all peslopa may law fully Marry, but sort wi are .prohibited by Gotra Jaw ; and that marriages contracted by hotifyi persons in time face of the church, and consummated' with bodily knowledge, and fruit of children, shall be indissoluble ; And that aQtilitit4 (Cost ' s hiw . -oCerted) shall inipeacb any marriage, but within the Levitical degrees, the furthest of which is that between uncle and - niece.— The prohibited degrees are now, however, understood to be all which are under the fourth degree of the civil law, except in the lineal ascent or descent; but between collaterals, all who are in the 4th degree are permitted to marry, as first cousins are in the 4th degree, and there fore may marry; and though a man may not marry his grandmother, it is undoubtedly true he may marry her sister. In computing the' 'degrees of relation a diffe rence exists between the civilians and the canonists, the effect of which is that the fourth degree of the latter would be the eighth of the former, and hence, together with the prohibition of the canon law against all marriages between first and second cousins, has arisen the vulgar paradox that first cousins may marry and second cousins may not. The degrees of collate ral relationship here spoken of are those of consangui nity or relationship by blood, but there are also degrees of affinity or relationship by marriage by which a man or woman's consanguinity become related to one ano ther, and a man or woman cannot marry the consan guinity of his wife or her husband any more than he or she can his or her own. HINTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS." (Front Blachwood's Magazine for Sept. 1826.) An exquisite series of descriptive Papers, published in Blarkwood's Magazine ' and erroneously attributed to Mr. lianim. We happen, however, to know, on the beat pri mte authority, that they are the productions of. Wilson, author of the " City of the Plague," and Professor of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh. That gentleman is at present residing on the banks of Windermere, near his filen& Spathe) , .and De Quincy, and hence arises that minute local knowledge, which gives such vivid interest to the essays before us. We give one of their choicest episodes. En voiei. THE WIDOW AND HER SON. Not a more beautiful vale ever inspired pastoral poet in Arcadia, nor (lid Sicilian shepherds of old ever pipe to each other for prize of oaten reed, in a lovelier nook, than where yonder cottage stands, shaded, but scarcely shel tered, by a few birch-trees. It is in truth not a cottage — bet :a Shieling of turf, part of the knoll adhering to the side of the mountain. Not another .dwelling-,--even as small as itself—within a mile in any direction. Those goats, that seem to walk where there is no footing, along the side of the cliff, go of themselves to be milked at evening, to a house beyond the hill, without any barking dc(g to set them home. There are many foot-paths, but all of sheep, except one leading through the' coppice-wood to the distant kirk. The angler seldom, disturbs those shallows, and - the heron has them to himself, watching often with motionless neck all day long. Yet the shieling is inhabited, and has been So by the same person for a good tummy years. You might look at it for hours, and yet see no one so much as moving to the door. But a little smoke hovers over it—faint as mist—and nothing else tells that within is life. It is inhabited by a widow, who once was the happiest of wives, and lived far down the glen, where it is richly cultivated, in a house astir with many children. It so happened, that in the course , of nature, without any ex- treordnutry bereavements, she outlived all the household, except one, on whom fell the saddest affliction that can befal a human being--the utter loss of reasm For some years after the death of her husband, and all her other children, this son was her support ; and there was no occasion to pity them in their poverty, , where all were poor. ,Her natural cheerfulness never forsook her ; and although fallen back •in the world, and obliged in her age to live without many comforts she once had known, yet all the past gradually, was softened into peace, and the widow and he'r Sole were in that abiding an happy any family in the parish. lie worked at all kinds of work without, and she sat spinning from morning to night within—a constant occupation, soothing to one be fore whose mind past times might otherwise have come too often, and that creates contentment by its undis turbed sameness and visible progression. If not always at meals, the widow saw her son for an hour or two every night, and throughout the whole Sabbath-day. They slept too under one,roof; and she liked the stormy wea ther when the rains were on----for then he found some in genious employment within the sideling, or cheered her . with some book lent by a friend, or with the lively or plaintive music of his native hills. Sometime, in her gra titude, she said that she was happier now than when she had so many Other causes to he so; and when occasionally MI acquaintance dropped in upon her solitude, her face wel• corned every one with a smile that spoke of more than resignation ; nor was she averse to partake the sociality of the other huts, and sat - sedate among youthful merriment, when summer or winter festival crime round, and poverty rejoiced in the richei of content, and innocence. .13ut her trials, great as they had been, were not yet over; for this, her only son, was laid prostrate by fever ; and when it left his body, he survived hopelessly stricken in Mind. His eyes,• so • clear and intelligent, were now fixed in idiotcy, or rolled about unobiervant of akobjects living or dead. To him all weather seemed the same— and if suffered, he would have lain down like a creature void of understanding, in rain or on Snow, nor been able, to find his way back for many paces from the hut. Await thought and feeling had left him, so had speech—all but a moaning as of pain or woe, which none but a mother 1 mould bear to hear without shuddering—but she heard it during night as well as day, and only sometimes' lifted up her eyes as in prayer to God. An offer was made to send him to a place where the afflicted werirtaken care of, but she beseeched charity for the first time—such alms as would enable her, alon%with the earnings of her wheel, to keep her son in the s ;Ong; and the means were given her from many quarters to do so decently, anti with all the comforts that other eyes observed, but of which the poor object himself was insensible and uncon scious. Thenceforth, it may almost be said, she never more saw the sun, nor heard the torrents roar. She went not to the kirk, but kept her Sabbath where the paralytic lay —and there she sung the lonely psalm, and elid the lonely prayer, unheard in Heaven, as many, despniling spirits would have thought—but it was not so—for in two years there came a meaning to his eyes, and he found a few words of imperfect speech, among which was that of " Mother." Oh I how her heart burned within her, to know that her face was at last recognized To feel that her kiss was returned, and to see the first tear that trick led from eyes that so long had ceased to weep ! Day af ter day, the darkness that covered his brain grew less and less deep—to her, that bewilderment gave the blessed "f "Pe; for her son now knew that he had an im mortal soul, and one evening joined faintly and feebly, and erringly in prayer, For weeks afterwards he remem bered only events and scenes long past and distant—and believed that his father, and all his brothers and sisters, were yet alive, We called upon them by their names to yams and knit* him—on them, who had all along been t . :parted in the dust. B u t hi s sou l s t r uggled itself into rea tnileand remembranee—and he at last *aid, " Mother I di d so •leri,,aoeitlent liefal me yesterday at my work down th e weak and about . to die !" The shadows of e~uth were oeu around lum—but he lived to be told much of w h at h ad unclouded spirit it►t buPpened—and rendered up a perfectly ther felt that all he ' the merry 1.11'6 Saviour. Its ni°- spieling boon-ra , n s d h t7r i e 'e n r i l a rs b v! a i d th l a tee fr n i e g o r d a , nt a e h t s l u i r t e t ( t i h t a ti t at on iz e i was borne away from the this world there math' fe n r o ie t r , t . ) t e itt n o more grief. Anti there in that same abieling, still lingers, visited as , 341 : 1 4 . /rot have gone by, alts still iplgo7or I who, by turns, her, and cheer a life that cannot h e l it n lter4 tn at "' w4ll when it may, will be laid down without one impious mis g, I)tt, that, end li fiving, and in the humility of a Clulatian's faith, CONSTANTINOPLE. (From the Constitutionnel.) CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 26.-(Private Letter).—The plague, which desolates this capital, brings into the haw (treasury) of his Highness large sums of money; to which, notwithstanding what has been said about the termination of confiscations, there have .been added, within these fif teen days, the treasures and spoils of two Jew bankers, three Armenians, and an Ulema, WhO has been executed as an accomplice in the plots of the Janissaries, to whom he had lent money. His Highness, who appears deter mined to procure money by any means, and wishing to adopt the most economical measures, has just begun to sell a part of the women who encumbered his harems, for the purpose• of proceeding in order: The eski serail (an cient seraglio) has been emptied of the women who be longed to the Sultans Selim and Mustapha, and who should have been shut up, according to custom, till the death of the Sultan. There are among these slaves se veral old women, but, as they were all sold in one lot, the Armenians, who try to make money in every way, will find that they have made a good bargain, if it is true that they have paid only 200,000 piastres for 700 women and 72 eunuchs. They intend to send these women, young and old, to Africa and to Curdistan, to be sold in lots to the proprietors of those countries. After this clearing out the glorious Sultan Mahomet has collected all the tailors of Constantinople, and sent them to the eski serail to make unifo r ms for the new troops. Economy of the same kind is extended into other quarters of the Royal harem, and the Sultan thus appears deter mined to appeal to the people rather than yield to the dif ficulties which are thrown in his way. In the midst of all these sales of women and eunuchs, the Sultan affects the most religious sanctity. Ile has just renewed the ceremony of the Holy Water, which consists in dipping a skirt of the prophet's garment into a vessel of water, with which they till thousand's of phials, and distribute them into all parts of Turke)% A great quantity of these have been sent to different parts of the empire, and sold at a high price, so that his Highness, .with this and the sale of his women, ,will realise several millions. The Grand Seig nieur has contributed, besides these other sources of profit, and it is calculated that in Constantinople alone he will realise ten millions by similar expedients. A number of new regulations have been adopted, such as allowing the use of wine, as forming a part of the European discipline —shutting up the coffee-shops, abolishing smoking, &c. ; but whether these changes will be finally adhered to, is another question. • One thing is certain, Mahomet H, will either fall in the struggle, or change the face of the empire. ‘ In the mean time, they continue to go on hanging daily great numbers of engineers, who do not seem at all dis posed to act in concert with the artillerymen. This man ner of exercising troops has so frightened the Arnautes, that great numbers have:departed without leave, after selling . to the Jews their new uniforms, which they did not wish to carry with them. However tranquil and peaceable all may appear at present, I would not answer for the destinies of the Turkish Emperor for fifteen days. EXCLUSION OF REPORTERS. (From the Morning Herald,) MARLHOROUUII•STREET.---OUrileporter presented him self again at this Office yesterday, for admission, when there were no less than four officers—Messrs. Clements, Ballard, Sehoofields, and Avis—stationed at. the door to prevent him entering. What could have induced Mr. Roe to double his guards, aided by a host of beadles and parish constables ? It would be supposed that two at least would be found sufficient to impede a single unarmed Reporter 1 The officers having declined to give any. cause for their conduct, more than that they. were stationed at the door by a brother otlicer,our Reporter wrote the following note to Mr. Conant, the sitting Magistrate : i" . ' takesway., to ank Mr. Conant if he may be allowed to attend in the Pablie Office, to report the prover& infix fur the Morning Herold.- . _ . Tuesday, 89th August, 1826." This note was presented to Mr. Conant by the Reporter of the Aforning Chronicle, .who informed the Magistrate that there were four officers stationed at the door to pre vent the Morning Herald Reporter from getting into the ()like. Mr. Cohant, having perused the note, said that he had no objection to the gentleman being admitted, and he handed the note to Sir George Tarrant, who observed that he was not aware , of any - objection either. Plank, the chief officer, was asked, by the Magistrates, if any orders had been issued to the contrary ? Plank said he believed that Mr. Roe gave orders to station ()Ulcers at the door to prevent the Mprning Herald Reporter from getting admit lance. Mr. Conant then informed the Morning Chronicle Reporter thathe. had no knowledge of such an order being issued. For hiMself, he should be .very happy to give the gentleman .of .the Press every accommodation possible; but as Mr. Rue :thought proper to make a particular order upon the subject, he <Mr. COliant), of course, could not interfere. Sir George Ferrara expressed himself to the Same effect. 'tie Morning Chronicler Reporter inquired of Plank the grounds of the exclusion, and was informed that they were known only to the Magistrate who issued the Order. The gentleman further observed, that the Morning Herald Reporter was not aware of having mis represented any facts in the. reports of the proceedings which he had furnished. Mr. Conant said that he was, no party to the issuing of the order, but, at the same ti me , he could not interfere_ with another Magistrate. Thus the matter rests at present. • The docks and basin at Portsmouth, which were destroyed last year at the launch of the Princess Charlotte, are now nearly restored, and will be fit for service in a short time. During the late Oxford Races, a letter-case was stolen from the carriage of Lord Churchill, containing, amongst oth er t hi ngs , a c h ec k on Hammersley for 361., which, by prompt proceedings, the thief, or one of his confederates, was apprehended. presenting at the banking-hous e next Morning. A man in fli t city of New York lately had a written notice stuck on his house,,,offering his wife for sale without the incumbranee of children. The woman sought redress at the Police Office, but the offence, it, appears, was not an indictable .ona.---American Paper. The intended triumphal arch at the entrance to the new Palace from the top,of Constitution Hill, will be fini 'h e d by December. To this will be attached an lonic Lodge of Portland stone for the King's servants, and another of the seine description for the Park keeper. There is' at last some probability of the projected new bridge at Chester being commenced. The con tract is advertised, and 30,0001. is called for, on se curity of the tolls. The bridge will be of granite, one arch, of two hundred feet span, being the largest stone arch in the world. It will be built under the direc tionof Mr. Telford. POST OFFICE: 1 401 MA TION.—A commurneation by Post Office Stearn Packets between Liverp oo l an d Kingston, will b e opened on the 29th inst., a regulation that must serve materially the commercial interests of both countries. The arrangement will insure the ar rival of the London and Liverpool mails to the Post office in Dublin, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and a return mail for England will be despatched by the same route, at three o'clock in the afternoon. The postage vin single letters from Dublin to Liverpo o l will here after be 9(1. instead of 1.3 d. The Cork Committee o f Merchants have not been inattentiv e to the pro jected alteration, an d have requested that a di s p a t c h o f the Mail for Cork mama}' t ake place, which shall iveit . the advantage of the ear l y arr i va l in c , O rh southern Reporter, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1826, We have just received, when going to press, the killowing official account of the termination of the Burmese War, published in the Calcutta Extraordi nary Gazette. We have neither space nor time for DAY AT OWL , O'CLOCK. PRICES OF STOCKS THI Bank Stock 20436 3 per Cent. Red BO '79% 3 per Cent. Cons 79% 9 % 3;4 per Cent. Ditto Red. Z4 4 per Cent. New 04 3(7i , Ditto, Scrip . - Bank Long An India Stock 135 Ditto Bonds 26 t 9 pm. South Sea Stock — 014 Mullikin 79 ~...!—*-7„,.. New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 24..."..1,71M Prn• Ditto SOO 24.....:37 IV Inn Ditto Small ti. 17 1 4 pill. Ditto Commercial ci lt io a nin u is k a. f f f o oo r rr A AA cc eccco o m u ut r ini a tt ,n,rav„);,-,:1i...c-,4. NDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent. — Brazilian Bonds SS Buenos Ayres Bonds Milian Bonds, 6 per ct. Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 33KA Danish, 3 per cent. Greek Bonds Ditto, 1825 I3 W) - 17 Guatemala Mexican Bonds 42 Do. 1825 494 501 50.2 50ff 50 Neapolitan 1821 Peruvian Neapolitan, Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto, New — Russian, New, 5 per cent. Spanish, 1821 lO 1823 — French Renter, 5 p. c —l. —c. ----- Exchange —t. —c. —3 per cent. —t —c. ----• Exchange —t. —c. PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Paid, Per Share. 49% 30 i 9 Anglo Mexican Mining Company .£65 Brazilian Mining Cumpany )5 COURSE OF EXCI L Amsterdam C.F. 12 8 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 9 Antwerp l2 9 Harnbt trgh 214 U. 37 1) Altona 2)4 U. 37 `0 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2U. 26 0 Bordeaux 26 0 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M. 156 Petersburg!), rble 3 Us. 834 Vienna, eirective A 2 M. 10 26 Trieste do. Madrid 34 Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona Seville 34 Gibraltar 45 NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 47 Genoa 43 Venice 4B Malta Naples 3B Palermo per oz. 114 Lisbon 40 Oporto 49 Rio Janeiro 42 Bahia 43% Buenos Ayres 43 Dublin, 21 days' sight l% 1% Cork . _ BULLION, PER OZ. X. E. cl. Portugal Gold, in coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars S 17 0 New Doubloons New Dollars 0 4 Si Silver, in bars, standard 0 4 111 Al A Arrived. . Due. 1 Dublin 2 Waterford 0 O Donaghadee 0 Guernsey & Jersey 0 O Lisbon U O 0 ottenburgli I O ' Haminirgli 1 Holland 0 111.611 WATER AT LOND Homing lB minutes after 0. IL S. Arrived Due. U France O Flanders 'o 4) Jamaica o Leeward islands , 0 o Malta 0 O America 0 U Brazil 0 U Buenos Ayres DN BRIDGE TO-MORROW. I Evening 47 minutes after 0. ( - ().bt .'•...-.ltn. comment : ( From the Bombay Courier.) BOMBAY, APRIL 14.—The following intelligence has been re ceived from the Cokutta &mite Extraordinary, relative to the Peace with the Government of Ave, and the latest proceedings in the Burmese territories. India Gazette Extraordinary, April 5, 1820. At a late, hour, the Enterprise reached Calcutta, having on board His Excellency Sir A. Campbell, Mr. Robertson, and Mr. Mangles, the return of whom to Calcutta, is in consequence of the conclusion of Peace with the Burmese. The public despatches announcing the ratification of the Treaty, by the Alliga tor, which left Rangoon a week before the Enterprize ar rived there, and may he hourly everted. The Aractine sailed at the same time for Madras. We have been favoured with the following particulars of this important and satisfactory event. After leaving Paglint tiir A. Campbell was met by repeated mes sengers from the King, offering to short of those which had been demanded, which offers were of course rejected ; at last, however, when the Army was within four days march of the capi tal, Mr. Price again made his appearance bringing with him the Treaty ratified by the King, and paid down the stipulated sum of 25 lace of rupees ; the remainder to he paid in manner previously determined. The prisoners were delivered up, and amongst them was Mr. Gouger. In addition to the Southern Provinces of Tavais and Merguie, we are to retain Alartaban to the east of Sanloon or. Martabau Provinces. The Ratification of the Treaty took place on 24th Feb. The troops commenced their return on the sth March, by water, and had all arrived at Rangoon. Sit Euiopean regi. ments had embarked besides theßengal artillery,when the Enterprise left. Some of the transports with his Majesty's 1 Stb, 38 th, and 41st regiments hail sailed, and it was expected that the whole would be withdrawn by the middle of May. Since writing the above we have been favoured ivith the following intelligence ; the Treaty was confirmed on the 24th February The treasure consists of rupees, and gold and silver bars, it is on board the Alligator. A party from Campo, paid a visit to the Capital, and were well received by the King with every honour. Mr. Crawford had gone to Martaban in the Diana. steam vessel. A battalion, with all the elephants, was attended by two Burmese Chiefs, and proceeded from Semburgheau to Arraean, via Aen, the road is now acknowledged to be a very good one. Bombay Castle, April 23. A General Order by Government was issued, that a royal salute, and other trollies of musketry, should be fired at all the military stations under that Presidency, iu consequence of this gratifying intelligence. (Signed) By Order of the Honourable the PRESIDINT in Couneil. The French Papers of Sunday, and the Etoile of Monday, reached us at a late hour last night. They do not contain any news of importance ; the Etoile is chiefly filled with a programme of the ceremonies to be observed upon the occasion of the Coronation of the Emperor and Empress of RUSSIA, at Moscow, which is now finally fixed for the 9th of this month. This long document is not of sufficient interest to our Readers to induce us to fill our columns with it. The Etoile also gives us the following curious correspond ence between the Emperor DON PEDRO, and Doctor FRANCIA, the Governor of Paraguay. The object of the EMPEROR'S letter appears to have been to ensure the delivery of certain letters to M. BONPLAN, Speelillg whose confinement so much has been said. The Doctor replies in the language of an independent Prince, but denies the correctness of the reports cir culated relative to his treatment of this Frenchman : trheetaitroalyliynoceusr L u E l TT ve E t t i t ie or: )e T op H l E e EMPEROR ppEßa:riaitiguao s overeig n ry hgailt:pZyt GOVERNOR,OF - PA RAGUAV. :hTa: sanction lR rendered under l'lA cy t io l ii you worthy Dr. Fra n cis, —The wisdom with which, under the pro tection of my august guarantee which I Mother, yott have been able to pre worthy of my esteem. letters since I took upon me to secure the happiness o f Brazil in the absence of 'my august Father, w h o has been pleased to grant me guarantee of lii' t i l ur r it itiln , for: Britan ni c have ultimatum re cei ved and'of offer you in my Majes ty--a which you administer. As I interest myself in their future lot, I am likewise interested in obtaining for the French man Bottplan a restoration to his family and friends; you will permit him to reply to the 1 and ) letters which the bearer of this will deliver to ,him. palace of Rio Janeiro, April 12 ) 1826 (Signed) FEDII,O DE ' ALCANTARA. ANSWER OP DR.' FRANCI4. Sire—As soon as I receiv e d the autograph letter, dated the 12th of April last, with which your Maj esty to honour me, I ordered o f i the bearer tty deigned tt to visitylonsieur Donpian. Your messenger will ho able to n . form your Majesty that the situation of thin F - i vim-Litwin IS not such as has, upon the report of my enemies, been painted in the journals of Europe. My envoys are still in that country and on that account I cannot change in any thing the order which, in the opinion even of your Imperial Majesty, hay preserved this province in - peace. But as soon as I shall have received a positive answer that Spain is not inclined to receive my commissioners, I shall charge the said,Mon 4ieur Bonplan to repair to your Imperial Mjesty to treat of the ultimatum to which you allude. May God, our Governor, preserve the Catholic and Im perial person of your Majesty, and all your august family, for'the happiness of your people. Assumption in Paraguay, May 25. Sire--I respect, as it is just, the virtues of your Im peria) Majesty. Dr. FRANCIA. BERNARDIN ZAMA% Secretary. The following article from the Journal des Dshats of Sunday would lead us to suppose that the Alge fines were again carrying on their depredations indis criminately on the vessels of all nations : PARIS, AUG. 27.—A private letter written from the Lazaretto of Toulon, dated August 18, contains the fol lowing details:—" Having left Bastia on board the packet boat Le Gustave, Captain Cunt:, we found ourselves, on Monday the 14th, at six o'clock in the evening, withiu sight of Monaco, whence we perceived four vessels, which we took for a merchant convoy. At eleven o'clock, we observed that they made signals, but we were far from believing they were meant for us. Some time after, we burned a match, and fired two loaded guns. An armed shaloupe advanced immediately and demanded to be al lowed to search us. The Captain refused. We then found that we were engaged with an Algerine squadron, consisting of two frigates and 26 guns, and two goelettes• Some examination of our vessel then took place, and the squadron left us. Fearing that this interview with' en Algerine vessel might oblige us to undergo quarantine' at Toulon, the Admiral gave us a certificate that he had been ahem from Algiers for the last three months. On arriving here, we found three Swedish vessels undergoing a severe quarantine, in consequence of having been visited by Algerine vessels. We have also learned that a vessel of Marseilles, laden with men and stores, and sent from Na poli by the Greek Committee, had been seized by the Algerines, and all the crews massacred." The Petersburgh Journals of the 12th inst. reached us last night. They are barren of political new'. An Ukase of the Ist instant, directs the renrc" l ° f the President of the Criminal Tribunal at Necbni Novgorod, for extreme indolence. A Company has been formed at Leipsig, tind er the superintendence of the Russian Consul-General there, for facilitating the purchase and transport 01 Saxon sheep, in order to improve the breed in Russia , and likewise to provide for the instruction of the Rus sian shepherds in the proper management of them. Few circumstances beyond those which we commu nicated in our paper of last night, respecting the termi nation of the war with the Burmese, have yet transpired. Such particulars as have been made public are con tained in the following article, dated Calcutta, April '7 :--- CALCIJTTA, APRIL. 7.—Sir Archibald Campbell and Mr. Robertson, the Civil Commissioner, arrived in the Enterprise steam-vessel, with the gratifying intelligence of pease having been concluded with the Burmese. The Treaty was ratified on the 24th of February, at Yandaboo, within four days' march of the capital. The first instal ment of 25 lass of rupees had been despatched from Ran goon by his Majesty's ship Alligator, ten days before the Enterprise sailed. The main body of the force in Avis had returned to Rangoon, and several regiments h a d em barked for Bengal and M adras.i All the troops would be ready to leave the Burmese territory by the time the se cond instalment of twenty-five hies of rupees would be come due, namely, the 4th of June. " The Burmese,,by virtue of the Treaty, give nivel' claim to Assam, Cachar, and Jyntea, and seknowiede Gumbeer Singh, Rajah ofNfunnipore. " The British are to retain Arracan, Ratnree, Chedube• and Sandowey. The total amount of the indemnity to be paid by the Burmese is one crore of rupees. " A Commercial Treaty is to be entered into between both powers, stipulating for freedom of navigation, includ ing the commerce in grain." We may now congratulate the country upon the termination of one of the most expensive wars in which our Indian Government has of late years been engaged' and which was pregnant with the most serious conse quences to the whole of our empire i n th e East. The treachery which the Burmese manifested in the non' fulfilment of the first treaty will render strong measures on our part necessary for the maintenance of that sii" thority which we have now established over them ; end' . from the energy with which Sir A uctilival) C4°ll - EL 1. has acted during this campaign, we have every res ' son to expect that he will have made such arrangelne'' fs as will fully preserve the advantages which have won by the gallantry and good conduct of the (A cer and men composing the army w hi c h h e h as had ie good fortune to command. The Numnburg Correspondent of the 2 2 d inst. reached us this morning. Th e P o li s h G ener al, Cm°. , VON KNIEASCHIEVITY, who had been arrested at the instance of Russi a i n F e b ruary l ast , an d con-n e I in the fortress of Konigstein, having been found i nn° '' cent, was set at liberty. It seems that destructive firms prevailed in the neighbourhood of Dresden for itb° lls a fortnight, burning incessantly, supposed to have bee ' ' , caused by incendiaries. We also received the Allgemeine Zeitung 23d instant, by which it appears that the chief ob j ec t of Prince METTERNICH going to Johannisberg, is 1° adjust the disputes respecting the navigation of the Rhine : MAYENCE, AVG. 15% His Highness Prince Metternich arrived at inha n " l4 :, ber on the firth instant. Since the arrival of the Prin.` 1 then plendid equipages and the many persons of distireticri who arrive from all quarters, have given to this eno t t !, a resolution may probably seat the appearance of a Royal residence. .Wo ng li e reports relative to the subjects that tray perbaio Y e , d is t cussed there, none appears to deserve credit, eaeeP* ', et , navigation of the Rhine. The.Merabers of the Coonm or Ilion of the Navigation of the Rhine have had the honour of paying their respects to his Highness. be taken concerning the ":4. At e t a lli t p tet via: 4NA , AVO p 4. Bank Shave 1070 al U Frankfort Papers to the 24th instant, have come to hand. tinder the head of Smyrna, it is sal" that proviNions clan was have fallen in prices i n cow